apt gets broken by package with many config files

[Alex Joni]

Binary package hint: apt

1. running Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS Dapper Drake
2. using apt-0.6.43.3ubuntu3
3. Installing a package with > 500 config files should work.
4. Installing a package with > 500 config files breaks apt.

This is the exact behavior of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=174945
which supposedly got fixed in apt_0.5.24

Getting the source (apt-get source apt - version 0.6.43.3ubuntu3) and inspecting it, the tag size is still set to 32k, not to 128k as it has been set in debian's apt 0.5.24

in tagfile.h: pkgTagFile(FileFd *F,unsigned long Size = 32*1024);

[Torsten Spindler (tspindler)]

It seems that in latest apt the buffer is still set to32k. However, mailman (example from debian bug 17945) installs just fine. Is there a package with many config files that cannot be installed on a supported version of Ubuntu?

[Alex Joni (alex-joni)]

We have since moved example configuration files out of /etc/, and didn't have further issues. Feel free to close the bug!